‘Dr. Om’ or ‘Dr. Doom’? Roubini gets meditative in Davos

Are we ready for a blissed-out “Dr. Doom“? Economist Nouriel Roubini, in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum talkfest, has revealed on Twitter his new practice: Transcendental Meditation.

The New York University professor, known for his bearish and consistently gloomy economic views, is now meditating twice a day, apparently. TM mantras can bring relief from stress, improve brain function and generally pep up your health, fans say (though the movement does have its detractors).

And Roubini does seem to be having a whale of a time in snowy Davos. Yes, he’s paying attention to the debates, noting in particular those on what he calls the “drivers of inequality”: labor-saving technological change, globalization, the power of elites and “winner-takes-all effects.”

He’s also sharing his own take on what’s next for global economies, with that tech shift in mind.

“In the third manufacturing revolution we will have robotics, automation, 3-D printing [and] nanotechnologies,” he said on Twitter. “But only skilled jobs will be created.”

As well as on the prospects for Germany, the U.K. and their continental economic allies: “Is Europe back? Tail risks reduced, but fundamental weaknesses remain chronic.”

With a snippet of the chat from the Davos back-channels:

“Scariest comment at the WEF so far: Chinese analysts saying in private that a limited war between China and Japan is possible.”

But most of all, Roubini is bumping into friends old and new at WEF 2014, and he’s Tweeting up a storm of selfies to prove it. Here he is with a bubble-licious Yale economist Robert Shiller:

Here with a former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee:

Plus a slightly blurry group shot with a Financial Times journalist (looking a bit dubious), a Dutch economist and a distinguished Chinese economist (from left to right):